PAKISTAN NATIONAL COMMITMENT/STATEMENT FOR NAIROBI SUMMIT (ICPD25)
Commitment description:Commitment 1:
1.1. Ensuring universal access to FP/RH services and commodities while aiming at significantly reducing unmet need and achieving:
a. CPR from 35% (2017) to 50% by 2025 and further raising it to 60% by 2030;
b. Lowering TFR from 3.6 (2017) to 2.8 children per woman by 2025 and 2.2 children per woman by 2030;
1.2. Reducing maternal morbidity and maternal mortality ratio from 170 (2018) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.
1.3. Making the right to promotive and primary health care for mother and child mandatory.
1.4. Ensuring implementation of LSBE and Population
Commitment 2:
2.1. Full filling the commitment made at FP2020 for raising per capita expenditure on FP to $2.50 by 2025 from $1.07 in 2018
2.2. Establishing a five-year non-lapsable Population Fund with annual allocation of Rs.10 billion (USD 63.7 million) for FP/RH services
2.3. Doubling Federal & Provincial Population & Health budgets for FP/RH and ensuring timely releases
2.4. Strengthen coordination mechanism for donor financing to NGOs and private sector organizations involved in FP/RH
Commitment 3:
3.1. Harnessing the demographic dividend through investing in women, adolescents’ and youth’s education, employment opportunities and health, including FP/RH services.
3.2. Encouraging involvement of young people while deciding issues relating to their health and well-being.
3.3. Linking population programs with social safety net initiatives like BISP and introduce conditional cash transfer schemes for adoption of FP/RH
Commitment 4:
4.1. Legislate and enforce Early Child Marriage Restraint Acts by Federal & Provincial Governments.
4.2. Reduce the birth rate among adolescents (age 15-19 year) from 46% (2017-18) to 23% by 2030.
4.3. Adopt zero tolerance policy on violence against women and girls.
Commitment 5:
5.1. Increasing capacity for emergency preparedness and mainstreaming MISP for RH/FP and prevention of and protection against GBV in emergency
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic action1.1. Ensuring universal access to FP/RH services and commodities while aiming at significantly reducing unmet need and achieving: a. CPR from 35% (2017) to 50% by 2025 and further raising it to 60% by 2030;
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.
